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Migrants

Candido Portinari1955

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in yellow, blue, orange, green, violet, ochre, gray, lilac, red and white. Precise lines and broken lines. Group of two couples and five children walking in the sun. On the left, stilt old, blind in one eye, long white beard, holding in his on the right hand a bundle and the on the left rests on the edge of the bat old who walks beside him dressed in dark with cloth over her head. To the right of center, the young woman bringing big backpack on his head and baby in her arms. In the center, in front of two more children and that the on the left brings a child in her lap. On the right man with pointed hat, protruding belly, holding in his on the left shoulder a stick with backpack at the end and holding hands with a boy also hat, which wipes his face with his shirt bar, leaving exposed the huge belly and members squalid. Background dotted yellow watching on the top on the left, darker circle representing the sun.

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  • Title: Migrants
  • Creator Lifespan: 1903-12-29 - 1962-12-06
  • Creator Nationality: Brazilian
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Death Place: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Creator Birth Place: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Date: 1955
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w32 x h33cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:death, social:Northeastern migrant, human figure:group:men, human figure:group:women, human figure:group:children
  • Technique: colored pencil
  • Signature: Signed at bottom right "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1688
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3400
Projeto Portinari

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